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quern-stone
ˈquern-stone [Cf. ON. kvernsteinn.] One of the two stones forming a quern; a millstone.c 950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xviii. 6 Behofas him þæt he ᵹehongiᵹa coern-stan..in suire his [c 1000 Ags. Gosp. cwyrn-, cweorn-stan]. 1388 Wyclif Num. xi. 8 And the puple ȝede aboute, and gaderide it, and brak with a...
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Chumash
Quern-stone
Native American history of California
References
Terry L.
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Quorn (disambiguation)
the village
Quorn, South Australia, a town and locality in the Flinders Ranges
Quorn railway station, a railway station in South Australia
See also
Quern , a place in Germany
Quern-stone, a tool for grinding
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Hyllestad quernstone quarries
This was a hand-operated quern that consisted of two circular stones. The stone crosses from Hyllestad are located along the coast of Sogn og Fjordane and Rogaland counties.
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Moneenabrone
Moneenabrone, an Anglicisation of the Gaelic, ‘Moínín na Brón’, meaning The Little Bog of the Quern-stone, is a townland in the civil parish of Templeport
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Ruth Shaffrey
She specialises in the study of quern-stones and millstones and is a worked stone specialist for Oxford Archaeology. In February 2021 she reported on the discovery of a quern-stone decorated with a phallus from excavations on the A14 road in Cambridgeshire.
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Achladia
Of particular note at the site are the pier-and-door partition connecting Rooms Beta and Gamma, a quern-stone in the kitchen (Room Delta) and a stone slab
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Hertfordshire puddingstone
A fragment of a quern-stone made from puddingstone was found by archaeologist Dominic Shelley on the site of a Romano-British farmstead in Great Eversden Its supposed magical powers gave it the names of woe stone.It was also called grow stone or breeding stone because of a related belief that it could multiply
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Knocking stone
The addition of a religious symbol to a stone used to prepare food is also recorded for quern stones as one was discovered at Dunadd in Scotland which See also
Quern-stone
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References
Archaeological and Historical Collections relating to Ayrshire & Galloway. Volume III. 1894.
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St Michael-le-Querne
The name is apparently a reference to a quern-stone as there was a corn market in the churchyard.
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Horsham Stone
Archeologists at Amberley found quern fragments made of Horsham Stone at Amberley Mount. Stone.
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Miller
Quern-stone
The most basic tool for a miller was the quern-stone—simply a large, fixed stone as a base and another movable stone operated by hand, similar
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Aghadoe Cathedral
The bullaun may have been originally been used as a quern-stone, but it was later used as a holy water receptacle and rainwater collected in the hollow of the stone had healing properties according to lore.
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Mano (stone)
Grinding process
A Mano, a smooth hand-held stone, is used against a metate, typically a large stone with a depression or bowl. See also
Bedrock metate
Grinding slab
Quern-stone
References
Further reading
Caple, Chris.
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Cheetham Close
The ring cairn lies to the south of the stone circle. The quern and arrowheads suggest the settlers were a pastoral community who supplemented their diet by hunting.
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